Regeneration? What regeneration? A damning indictment of the current state of our cities points the finger firmly at Blairite Britain

Slideshow: Ruins

Owen Hatherley’s book is garnering critical acclaim – see Hugh Pearman’s review below. Here is Pearman’s selection of the photographs of Hatherley’s journey through British cities, plus some telling quotes...
Southampton: this most overlooked of Britain’s cities, where Hatherley was born and raised, used to boast fine industrial buildings such as this, the Solent Flour Mills, still in operation. "Remarkably, there have been no proposals to turn it into a lottery-funded art gallery"